At first I thought he was acting the depressed want-to-get-back-together role but as the movie carries on he continued to look ill, flabby faced and watery eyed. He may have been on some sort of drugs. I had a friend on steroidal treatment and he looked the same. A quick look a google for answers and found this:
"..Hugh is speaking in Los Angeles after taking two years off from acting – turning down all offers of work following his 2007 movie Music and Lyrics alongside Drew Barrymore.
The reason for his partial retirement, he reveals, was a series of crippling panic attacks which forced him to rely on heavy doses of prescription drugs to keep calm.
While making Music and Lyrics, in which he played faded pop star Alex Fletcher, he had “four or five terrible panic attacks,” and adds: “I did the whole film full of lorazepam” – a drug used to treat anxiety disorders.
“It was scary. When I got back home I put Post-it notes around my computer saying, ‘Accept no more films.’”
But he was persuaded to return for the comedy Did You Hear About The Morgans? – out on January 1 – after seeking out a variety of different therapies.
“I went to every shrink in London,” he says. “I had every treatment – I had a man oscillate something in front of my eyes and another man who stabbed me in the arm."
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